Management Development and Organizational Resilience. A Case Study Of Some Selected Manufacturing Firms In Rivers State. Nigera.

The study examined the effect of Management Development on Organizational Resilience in the Nigerian manufacturing industry.A total of 140 employees were randomly drawn from employees of the 31 manufacturing companies in Port Harcourt.The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and oral interview.A total of 93 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed.Spearman's Rank Correlation Statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses.The findings revealed that Management Development is significantly related to Organizational Resilience.Based on these findings we concluded that Management Development has significant influence on Organizational Resilience.The study therefore recommends that organizations should use its management development programmes as a knowledge retention measure that will strategically channel efforts in a way that will drive organizational success.